State v. Laccone

The certified issues in this criminal appeal arise out of the exclusion at trial of a letter written a year before the trial by a prosecution witness, in which the witness represented that she was “going to try hard to stop lying.” The state charged the defendant, John Laccone, with assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes (Rev. to 1991) § 53a-59 (a) (3)1 and risk of injury to a child in violation of General Statutes § 53-21.2 After a jury trial, the defendant was *747found guilty as charged and the trial court rendered judgment accordingly. The Appellate Court affirmed the…